Exhibiting a lack of assertiveness.
Accordingly, cognitive error — false assertion or belief — is not explained as inaccurate representation, as a lack of correspondence between assertion or belief and reality, or as a failure to grasp the unchanging reality behind shifting sensory appearances.
On the down side, some have noted a certain humorlessness and lack of assertion as a local cultural figure.
A common theme in the comments of the referees concerns a lack of adequate documentation for important assertions in the paper.
Mr. Jacobson transforms my point about how to encourage reporting into an assertion about a lack of compassion.
The book's countermainstream assertion of a lack of significant genetic connection to cancer, autism, schizophrenia, and other phenomena provides multiple opportunities for students to explore the scientific literature surrounding such genetic connections.
In Save the Children's report 'A Last Resort: The Growing Concern about Children in Residential Care' the organization states: "Save the Children argues that many features of residential care are an abuse of children's rights…"[ 26]; yet there is a lack of empiric evidence to support this assertion.
We face the most important political decision of our generation, but the debate has been reduced to over-simplification, wild assertions and a lack of historical perspective.
Senator Charles E. Grassley, the Iowa Republican who requested the study, said in a letter sent Monday to Robert S. Mueller, the director of the F.B.I., that he found Mr. Freeh's assertions about a lack of money for antiterrorism to be "odd in light of the huge amounts of money Congress has poured into the F.B.I. for more than a decade".
Mr López Obrador alleges that behind the government's assertions about a lack of money and technology to modernise Pemex lie the ambitions of powerful leaders to privatise the industry.PRD lawmakers in April staged a sit in of Congress and took over the speaker's platform, effectively blocking the legislature's functioning for two weeks and preventing debate on the reform law.
